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οἰκιακός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰκιακός οἰκιακή οἰκιακόν

Structure: οἰκιακ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or belonging to a house, domestics

Examples

  • ἡ δὲ Τερεντία καὶ γὰρ οὐδ’ ἄλλωσ ἦν πρᾳεῖά τισ οὐδ’ ἄτολμοσ τὴν φύσιν, ἀλλὰ φιλότιμοσ γυνὴ καὶ μᾶλλον, ὡσ αὐτόσ φησιν ὁ Κικέρων, τῶν πολιτικῶν μεταλαμβάνουσα παρ’ ἐκείνου φροντίδων ἢ μεταδιδοῦσα τῶν οἰκιακῶν ἐκείνῳ ταῦτα τε πρόσ αὐτὸν ἔφρασε καὶ παρώξυνεν ἐπὶ τοὺσ ἄνδρασ· (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 20 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or belonging to a house

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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